Acknowledgments

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Jeez, there are so many people to thank. This feels like I'm accepting an Oscar. I'm afraid the band will start playing and usher me off the stage. Anyway, first of all, thank you Andr LaMothe for giving me a chance and taking me out to lunch . I will get you back for that one day. Thank you everyone at Premier Press: my copy editor Jenny Davidson, my acquisitions editors, Emi Smith and Mitzi Koontz, and my CD editor, Brandon Penticuff.

Thanks Adam Hepworth, who spent a lot of his "busy" day helping read my text and correcting a lot of errors. To all of my brothers and sisters: Rachi, who offered her help even though she was across an ocean, Nagina, whose love and support (and numerous phone calls) helped carry me through, and Ramit, who gave me a person to look up to and who helped me through the thick and thin (as well as giving me the chance to use "abeyance" in a sentence ). Thanks for being there and giving me support when I needed it. To my mom and dad: I couldn't have done this without you. I love you so much.

I didn't forget about you, Parker Hiquet! Thanks for your help as a teen reviewer on this book.

Finally thanks to Edgar L. Ibarra (Feo) for his artwork and Thomas Stenb ck for his work on music. Also, to Ari Feldman, for allowing me to use his sprite library on the CD.

Also, for contributing a demo program to the book, thanks to Jason Brasier and Edgar Ibarra for Rockfall and Marcus "Eikon" Smith for Galaxiga .

And to everyone whose name I forgot , you know who you are. Thanks!

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